{"product_id":"9780809326259","title":"Our Land Is Made of Courage and Glory: Nationalist Performance of Nicaragua and Guatemala","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOur Land Is Made of Courage and Glory: Nationalist Performance of Nicaragua and Guatemala adds to a growing and timely body of work on nationalist drama. Examining important twentieth-century plays that few people have written about in English, E. J. Westlake analyzes the phenomenon of nation as performance by focusing on the definition of a people, national metaphors, and the uses of national history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWestlake discerns the common characteristics that constitute nationalist plays, a genre that seeks to legitimate the nature of a nation by defining its boundaries, race, language, citizens, and history. Particularly relevant in an era influenced by imperialism, migration, and globalization, the volume probes the concepts of nation and nationalism in the context of postcolonial literary and performance theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOur Land Is Made of Courage and Glory \u003c\/i\u003ecovers the political and theatrical history of Nicaragua and Guatemala. Westlake examines how the blending of races factors into nationalism with a look at the play \u003ci\u003eEl tren amarillo \u003c\/i\u003eby Manuel Galich and uses Nobel laureate Miguel Ángel Asturias’s \u003ci\u003eSoluna \u003c\/i\u003eto show how nationalists appropriate Mayan culture to create a sense of the Guatemalan people and culture. She discusses the mapping of history as a linear progression in Alan Bolt’s \u003ci\u003eBanana republic \u003c\/i\u003eand as a cycle of patricide in \u003ci\u003ePor los caminos van los campesinos \u003c\/i\u003eby Pablo Cuadra. Westlake also suggests that Rolando Steiner’s \u003ci\u003eLa noche de Wiwilí, \u003c\/i\u003ea play taken from an eyewitness account, acts as a site of official national memory, and she examines as well the canonizing of the folk ballet \u003ci\u003eEl Güegüence \u003c\/i\u003eto further explore the notion of sites of memory versus lived memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRaising essential questions about the future of nationalism and nationalist performance, \u003ci\u003eOur Land Is Made of Courage and Glory \u003c\/i\u003ewill be of interest to scholars and students in drama, Latin American theatre studies, political science, and history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Southern Illinois University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47015259504880,"sku":"9780809326259","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780809326259_p0.jpg?v=1763739717","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780809326259","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}